Hay-press.



R. c. Mo 6.1. ALEXANDER.

HAY PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.23, I9I2.

Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

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RAYMOND C. MOTT AND JESSE ALEXANDER, 0F CLINTON, INDIANA.

HAY-PRESS.

Specication of Letters IEatent.A

Patented Apr. 3, 1917..

Application led September 23, 1912. Serial No. 721,933.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, RAYMOND C. Mora` and JEssE ALEXANDER, citizens o-f the United States, residing at Clinton, in the county of Vermilion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Hay-Press, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates particularly to motor-driven hay-presses of the gasolene engine type, and its particular objects are: first; to provide a simplified type of transmission from the gasolene engine for actuating the hay-press, which shall cost less to construct and have a minimized liability to get out of order; second; to furnish a means of quick-return for the hay-press plunger which shall increase the output ofthe press by doubling the frequency with which bales may be taken from it; third; to furnish a type of construction which shall be capable of being equally well operated by horse power draft in the event of exhaustion of fuel or accident to the engine.

We attain the objects stated by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-` Figure 1 is a side elevation of our haypress, with a small portion of the compress screw casing and baling chamber broken away to show the construction; Fig. 2 is an enlarged top plan of the engine bed with its concentrically inclosed turntable; Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section taken on the motor end of our hay-press and the details of its transmission gear mechanism; Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional plan of the engine bed .with its inclosed. turntable taken upon the line 4 4,Fig. 3, showing the arrangement of the quick-return gear train, said view being taken on the section line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional plan of the engine bed with its inclosed turntable, taken upon `the line 5&5, Fig. 3, showing the pressure gear train: and Fig. 6 is a much enlarged detail, showingthe gears.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to Fig. 1 the separable truck frame 1 has its lap joints 2 united by bolts 3 in the customary manner and is supported .3

upon the truck 4 with its draft-pole 5 andfig and the lower half of whose/circuit is counvertically adjustable follower truck 6 in the 'itersunk in the pivot pedestal 38. r1`he king usual manner. Bolts 7 superiorly secure upon the rear end of said truck frame 1 the hay-press frame 8, having built thereon the baling chamber 9, surmounted by the hay hopper 10, for feeding the hay to be baled into said chamber. The baling plunger 11 is borney upon the compress head 12 which has journaled therein the flanged, unthreaded rear end of the compress screw 13, and bears securedly upon its forward face the compress screw casing 14, within which threadedly engages the right-hand thread of said compress screw. The thrust block 15 is rigidly secured by bolts 16 upon the top of the truck frame 1 and has turning within same the thrust journal 17, of the compress screw 13 exteriorly provided with integral thrust collars 18, which prevent longitudinal motion of said compress screw, so that its revolution shall cause the alternate recedence from and approach to said thrust block of said casing 14.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 3, the cone pinion 19, keyed upon the front end of the compress screw 13, is always simultaneously in mesh with the quick-return cone 20 keyed on the core shaft 21 and with the power cone 22 keyed upon the tube shaft 23, journaled in a vertical bore through the iioor of the engine bed 24, through which bore it is prevented from gravitating by the hub of the power spur 25, keyed upon its upper end.

Referring to Figs. 3, 5 and 6, segmental internal gears 26, interiorly secured upon the dependent track flange 27 of the turntable 28, engage at intervals with said power spur 25.

Referring to Figs. 3, .4 and 6, the quickreturn spur 29 is in plane with and meshes into the teeth ofthe external segmental gears 30 borne upon segmental annular angles 31 inferiorly secured to the large gear-boss 32 made integrally upon the bottom of the turntable 28. The engine bed 24 is angularly fixed by adjustable pillar bolts as 33 engagedly secured between its end side and the truck frame 1 and bears channeled within its upper face the track-rolls 34, upon which turns the track flange 27, as particularly shown in Fig. 3. The pivot pillar 35 dependent from the gear boss 32 turns within the socket collar 36 upon the balls 37,

Athe upper half of -whose circuit is countersunk within the base of saidy pivot pillar olt 39 passes through axially registering )bores in the pivot pedestal, pivot pillar, gear i boss and turntable in such manner as to hold the latter down upon its supporting anti- Ding geartrain, composed ofsaid internal friction ball and rollercircuits and prevent angular inclination of the engine and gear train when in operation.

The engine 40 is bolted upon the turntable 28 sok that its central vertical axis axially registers with that of the king bolt 39. Said engine is of suitable gasolene type the event of exhaustion of fuel or Ydisplacement of the engine. Y

The operation of our invention is as follows:

Referring' to Figs. 1, 3 and 4, the clockwise rotation of the Adriving gear 44 upon the engine 40 causes a continuous anti-clockwise revolution of the turntable 28. In the position shown by these views the quick-return spur 29, actuated by one of the external segmental gears 30 is clockwise turning the core shaft 21 with its quick-return cone meshing with the cone pinion 19 and by the latters clockwise revolution causing the longitudinally fixed compress screw 13 to withdraw byits casing 14 the baling plunger 11, in preparation for the reception through the hopper 10 into the ry-E05 chamber 9 Vof the hay to be lOLld-V As said .anti-clockwisemotion of the turn-V table 28 continues said external segmental gear 30 passes out of. mesh with the quickreturn spur 25, which thereby gives antilclockwise revolution through the tube shaft -23 to the power cone 22 and to the attached Y compress screw 13, thus forcing its casing away from the -thrust block 15, -and compressing the hay inthe baling chamber 9. -Y We .so proportion the radii of our drivsegmental gears, power spur, v and power cone, with respect to the effective radius at y which the latter meshes with the cone Apinion, that the compressing revolution of the compress screw 13 is at twice the power n and only half the speed of its retractive revolution iny withdrawing said plunger; and wev'correspondingly so proportion the radii of thequick-return gear train, composed of; thel external segmental gears, Vquick-return spur and quick-return cone, with respect tothe extreme meshing radius ofthe .cone pinion19, as to cause the revolution of the Vscrew in withdrawing Ythe plunger at twice the speed and half the power used in compressing, which we claim to be an important economical practical feature 1n the operation of our hay-press.

The great simplicity and fewness of parts attained in the construction of our invention, by which all its automatic functions are performed without the use of ratchets or releasing mechanisms of any kind, with corresponding increase of durability and cheapness of manufacture, are only rendered possible by reason of the revolution of our actuating engine with its turntable, upon an axis prependicular to but in plane with the shaft of the engine, and which therefore owes its eiiiciency in driving the hay-press directly to its reaction against the annularly geared engine bed, as distinguished from boltings or connecting mechanisms of the ordinary kind.

This peculiarity of an engine capable of revolution on an axis perpendicular to the horizontal plane of its bed we regard as the essential differentiation of our invention from all other hay-presses; and we do not Vwish to restrict ourselves to the particular construction of gears and transmission mechanism utilized for taking the power from said engine as shown in the drawings, but reserve the right to vary that construction in any reasonable manner without departing from the spirit of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

1. In a hay-press motor, a revoluble turntable mounted upon a pivot-column, having secured thereupon an engine provided with a driving gear, an angularly-fixed flanged engine-bed, concentrically surrounding said turntable, superiicially provided with an annular gear adapted to mesh with said crown driving gear in such manner as to reactively cause the revolution of said turntable with said engine, upon operation of the latter; and geared members adapted to transmit the power from said turntable to a member designed to be driven by saidhaypress motor.

2. Ina hay-press motor, a revoluble turntable, with a dependent flange,- having interiorly secured thereon segmental internal gears; an engine secured upon said turntable provided with a driving gear on the drive shaft; thereof adapted to revolubly actuate said turntable; an angularly-ixed engine-bed, having a continuous up-turned annular flange thereon concentrically surrounding said turntable, said flange being provided superficially with an annular gear adapted to mesh with said driving gear, so

.as to reactively revolve said turntable with said engine, upon operation of the latter; a geared member journaled upon said xed engine bed, adapted to transmit the engine power from said turntable by meshing with said internal gears on the flanges thereof 1,221,573 nel to the member designed to beaotuated by said motor; and geared members comprising a worm for transmitting the driving power from said geared member on said enginebed to the member designed to be actuated by said hay-press motor.

3. ln a hay-press motor, a revoluble turntable with a dependent iange supported on a central pivot-column; an engine having a ,driving gear secured upon said revoluble turntable; an angularly-iixed flanged engine-bed, concentrically surrounding said turntable, provided supericially with an annular gear adapted by the meshing thereof with said driving gear to impart reactive revolution to said turntable with said engine upon operation of the latter; a. central segmental gear7 secured inferiorily to said turntable upon said pivot column, adapted to intermittently engage a quick-return pinion, mounted upon the upper end of a telescope-shaft journaled in said langed engine-bed; a bevel gear upon the lower end of said telescope-shaft, adapted to mesh with a bevel pinion, for causing quick return of the member to be driven by said motor; segmental internal gears on said dependent turntable flange; a power pinion, secured upon the upper end of the sleeve of said telescope-shaft in a plane below said quiclr-retr1rn pinion, adapted to be intermittently driven by meshing with said internal gears; a power bevel gear secured upon the lower end of the sleeve of said telescope-shaft; a bevel pinion adapted to mesh with said bevel-gear; and, on the shaft oi"- said bevel pinion, a screw coperating with a sliding nut, adapted to transmit therethrough the power of said motor to the member' designed to be actuated by 40 same.

Signed at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, this 7th day of September, 1912.

RAYMOND C. MOTT. JESSE ALEXANDER.

l/Vitnesses:

C. C. KANES, K. R. CLENDENING.

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y Washington, D. C. 

